Bomb found.

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Mad Mike

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Just now reported on the evening news. A bomb was found and detonated in downtown Salt Lake City. They don't have any leads yet.
It seems like the world is truly going crazy! Guess I'll be keeping the Glock 17 loaded and handy. Keep safe all!
 
MIKE,I think u'r right.Now someone is snipping in Maryland,Terrorist maybe???????:( :mad: :mad: Keeping the .45 at condition 1!@!!!!
 
JUSTRIGHT...
I don't think any of these scumbages are terrorist they're too chickensh#t for that. They're probably punks that didn't get enough attention from Mommy and decided to vent their anger about they're bedwetting on honest people.

Keep yur powder dry!
 
Maybew when I come back later I'll have something to say I won't come back and delete.
 
It's good to have a few .45s around, and maybe a battle rifle or two...or three...
 
Yeah, I noticed a cowboy version of the Marlin 45-70 with longer octagonal barrel (probably 24"), which would shoot the Garrett cartriges out at 3400 to 3700 ft/lbs muzzle energy from around 350 to 520 grain very hard cast lead.

In the meantime I'll just top off my 44 mag trapper with the chamber empty and keep it behind the seat. Least til I put my paratrooper SKS with 20 round fixed mag back together and sighted back in ( with a couple hundred rounds in strippers in bandoleers ).
 
I have been told that there has always been that ten percent of digbats and when I was younger they told me that you just heard about them more these days because of the rapid communications. That may be true to an extent, but the way things are right now the situation seems completely out of hand.

Then I hear some one say let the police take care of the crazies. Yea Right! Who's to say that they are any better than the other crazies. From what I have seen the last year there have been one hell of a bunch of cops arrest for all kinds of crimes that they are supposed to be protcting us from.

I will keep my weapons loaded and a khuk real handy.
 
The police have just release a BOLO on the Maryland shooting, and have linked the DC shooting to Maryland, making it 7 killed. The BOLO instructs the officers to look for two "Hispanic" males and notes that the "hispanic" bit might be intereprited as non-white (as in Middle-Eastern).

This PC stuff is really getting out of hand. I guess the war is starting to heat up again.

n2s
 
Let's just hope Maryland doesn't use this as a reason to outlaw those "high powered sniper rifles."

Edit: For some reason I posted this here instead of in Pendentive's "What is happening???...." thread...:footinmou
 
Washington DC already has some of the most restrictive (repulsive) gun controls in the country. Of course, the a$$hole doing the shooting doesn't follow the rules. (Thats why they called them "criminals") Another example of the failure of gun control, IMHO

My sympathy to the victims.
 
Police Detonate Bomb Found Inside SLC Motel
Saturday, October 5, 2002

Bomb technicians from the Salt Lake City police department detonated a homemade explosive device Friday after the dangerous explosive was discovered by a maintenance worker inside a downtown motel.
The bomb, which was constructed of cannisters of carbon dioxide, "could have killed somebody," said Salt Lake City police Detective Dwayne Baird.
The "small device" was discovered atop an ice machine on the second floor of the Travelodge, 524 S. West Temple, Baird said.
A motel employee discovered the bomb and called police at about 3 p.m.
Bomb squad members safely detonated the device, Baird said.
A half-dozen rooms in the motel were evacuated and traffic was halted in the area for a short period, Baird said.
"We have swept through the motel and found nothing else suspicious," he said. "We are now gathering evidence necessary to determine who is responsible."
Anyone with information about the bomb is asked to call Salt Lake City police at 799-3000.
-- Kevin Cantera
 
I grew up in the coal mining district of SE Kansas. From time to time the miners would strike leaving the mines idle. This was a good time for delinquents like myself to go out to a mine and confiscate a few sticks of dynamite and some blasting caps. We would blow up rocks, trees, and other available targets (and almost ourselves on a couple of occasions) but the thought of blowing up a school or train depot or people never crossed out minds.

What's changed?
 
What the hell is going on ????? ARE THE KRAZY people taking advantage of the situation now???? Or are we actually under attack by these extreamist???:mad: :mad: We shall see...... frank
 
The bomb, which was constructed of cannisters of carbon dioxide
Has anybody figured out what this was yet??
The posibility for over-reaction is enormous.
To describe it as an explosive that could detonate is ludicrous.

Hint: the solid form of carbon dioxide is dry ice.

So someone sealed some in a container, expecting that as it warmed the container would eventually burst, creating a loud noise. When properly sealed, it can work quite well, depending upon the container. If the container creates shrapnel-like fragments, yes, someone could be seriously injured, if next to it. If sharp bits were deliberately included or the container was selected to create this effect, yes, a sicko at work, particularly there is no chance or hope of controlling the length of time required for the container to fail to control the increasing pressure.

It's an "explosive" device in the same sense that an over-inflated tire is. The force that can be produced is quite limited, since if the container is too strong, the carbon dioxide will just liquify to a state known a supercritical fluid, and indeed, that is it's state in a fully charged metal compressed gas cylinder like those used for dispensing beer.

CO2’s critical pressure is about 1,070 pounds per square inch (psi) and critical temperature is about 31 degrees C ( A large gas cylinder is typically charged to around 3,000 psi.) BTW, the supercritical fluid makes quite a dandy industrial solvent, and has been used many things, from cleaning parts to removing caffein from coffee beans. Of course the pressure equipment required is expensive. However, solvent disposal is a breeze (icky pun)

When younger, I've made such devices for pranks, and I supect that somebody got a lot of bang for the buck here, probably more than they expected.

EDIT

Well, at least they found the thing before the bang. I imagine that the time and effort wasted trying to identify traces of the "explosive" would have been enormous.
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My problem is,
"WHEN, they get them, "NAIL THEM OR HIM" to the wall!! PO-LEESE, don't tell me, they were abused, misunderstood,or trying to get attention!!Better yet have someone,get shot at,have them miss,have the person shot at be armed,shoot back & NOT MISS!!:mad:
jim
 
I'd put some red-face smiley logo here....if I knew how to do it.

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Keth
 
Sorry, Clifton,

Inadequate info to justify that reaction.

Glass containers or nails included. MAYBE and YES
(incredibly feeble attempt to make a grenade)

Non-shattering polymeric container. NO
(like making noise by popping a very stong bag)

Everyone is already insanely worked up over a truely wimpy device. We used to make them out of heavy rubber tubing and put them in people's desk drawers, O.K.? Yea, the bottom got pushed out of a couple of thin drawers, that's because the increasing size of the inflating tubing did it--we saw it happen. WIMPY device. Noise only. Maybe a couple of pieces of glass could fly across a small room with enough force to do some damage if one was dumb enough to use a glass container.

This is like pulling some fire alarms, has that become a capital offense because everyone's worked up? If so, the bad guys won. We can't think straight, how can we fight the real ones?

It was stupid, very stupid. Doesn't require that the response be.
 
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